Track 2 - Internet Routing and IP Network management (7-Oct-96)
Autonomous Systems and EGP
2) New BGP Features
A) Route Reflection
1) Technical Discussion
- Diagram of the Route Reflection
- Route Reflection Scales the Internal BGP Mesh
- Route Reflector can re-advertise routes from internal peers
- Route Reflector acts as reflector for cluster of clients (cluster-id)
- Loop Proection provided by adding the Cluster-id to the path.
You detect a loop if you are a route reflector and a cluster-id of your own.